Sacred Water, Sacred Air, Sacred Land, Sacred Life
Sacred Water, Sacred Air, Sacred Land, Sacred Life
With October just around the corner, we need your help to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in recognition that Indigenous Peoples are still here. Community organizers are coming together to get an Indigenous Peoples Day resolution passed in Boston to recognize the true history of the city and honor the continued resiliency of Indigenous communities in Boston today.
Seventeenth meeting of the UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Yerevan, Armenia, 19–30 October 2026
Agenda Item 1.
This statement is submitted to UN CBD COP17 on behalf of Cultural Survival, an Indigenous-led organization.
We request that the Parties pay attention to and support the following set of issues regarding Indigenous Peoples.
Por David Hernández Palmar | Wayuu
Tatuado con Espinas - Colectivo Asho’ojushi
Como un cuentacuentos que tiene a la niñez de la comunidad alrededor, les contaré algunas anécdotas sobre nuestro proyecto “Tatuado con espinas”. Un proyecto que no solo ha instaurado una conversación en mi pueblo, sino que también me ha provisto de un nuevo camino para entender la medicina Wayuu, la memoria y la defensa territorial marcada en la piel.
Por Colectiva Lemow
Las narrativas de los pueblos originarios en Guatemala han sido plasmadas, a lo largo de la historia, a través de la pintura, la escultura, la música, la escritura, el muralismo y la tradición oral. Estas expresiones han permitido guardar la memoria colectiva de nuestros pueblos.
Our Indigenous Youth Fellowship Program supports young Indigenous leaders between the ages of 17-28, who are eager to learn about technology, program development, journalism, community radio, media, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocacy. Since 2018, we have awarded 110 fellowships supporting 204 fellows.
By Fr. Bijo Thomas, Station Director, Community Radio Mattoli, Wayanad, Kerala, India.
Radio Mattoli, a community radio station in Dwaraka, located in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India, won the award for best thematic radio program by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The station was recognized for having the best quality and most relevant and timely coverage of climate mitigation and Indigenous practices out of 448 community radio stations in India. The award was presented to Radio Mattoli on July 23, 2023.
The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, better known as the Escazú Agreement (named after the city in Costa Rica where it was adopted), is the first binding regional environmental agreement.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.